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victim of difappointed hopes, and ardent ex- 

 peditions. Still it never occurred to him that 

 he might have made one of the dull-failing 

 veffels, and have faved his paffage. In bit- 

 ter chagrin, and fadnefs of fpirit, he return- 

 ed to the more : but not to deliberate upon the 

 next beft plan of proceeding, for, even yet, he 

 was deaf to experience. Like a Frenchman he 

 was not long the fubjed of defpondency, but, 

 in defiance of all fatigue, and without difcuff- 

 ing any of the probabilities, he again rufhed 

 into new and ill-planned adventures. If one 

 project failed — me believed that he had only 

 to fly to another. 



After fome trouble he found the horfe, h^ 

 had fo thoughtlefsly left behind. And al- 

 though it was late, and grown almoft dark, he 

 galloped acrofs the ifland, and again took off 

 a boat to Portfmouth : from whence he, ab~ 

 furdly, fet off the next morning for Ply mouthy 

 in the wild certainty of being able to get on- 

 board the Lord Sheffield, from thence. Upon 

 his arrival, fome mips were feen at a great dis- 

 tance from the fnore, and it was not eafy to 

 afcertain whether they belonged to our con- 

 voy ; but Mac— was not apt to doubt, and with 



